Remarks On Part Three of the Civil Rights Bill

I would ask what risks might be run of having sullen communities in this country forced, so to speak, to live together in peace and amity simply because of fear of injunctions and jails and punishment of all kinds. I would ask what risks are run in such a community of a total lack of cooperation among the members of the community, a cooperation which now makes communities at least livable, but which in the absence of such cooperation would make them at best sullen and hard-eyed groups looking at one another with fear and suspicion. By the use of force as provided in Part III, you may appear to have achieved a victory over the South, but in substance it will prove to have been a defeat for the free society the essence of which is persuasion and common sense not absolutism and naked power, I urge the Senate to reject Part III, of this bill, as is provided in the Anderson-Aiken amendment. -7